... who, despite having worked at the Times, one of the key elements in the group, spent the latter half of the 1930s belabouring 'the Cliveden Set' without ever realising that they were the Round Table. The 'radical right' in America attacked the Round Table's various front organisations in the late 1940s, thinking they were attacking the 'international communist conspiracy'. (15) More recently both Nixon and Mrs Thatcher have explicitly set themselves up as the the enemies of the foreign policy 'establishment' without ever showing the slightest signs of understanding who it is they are hostile to. (16) Quigley's account comes to a halt after WW2. The Round Table group was one manifestation ...

... producing fake Loyalist papers. Denouncing the excesses of Protestant militias like UVF and the UDA, they were designed to produce conflict between the different paramilitary groupings. They were distributed by the ghost group Tara. More off-the-record briefings hinted that Paisley was linked to Tara, described in one anonymous tract as "riddled with homosexuals and communists." (24) At various times Tara was linked with Paisley's Free Presbyterian Church and Democratic Unionist Party, as well as with the Official Unionist Party and the Orange Order. Some journalists, including Chris Ryder of the Sunday Times, eagerly published these stories. By 1976 even Paisley realised that a psychological warfare operation had been launched ...

... : it wasn't until this year that her husband learned her real name. Maria Stella Novotny was born on the 9th of May 1941 in Prague. Her father was brother to the President of Czechoslovakia, and they lived in the Royal palace until she was 6 years old, when the Soviet Union moved in. Because the President supported the Communists, this family tie would explain why Eddowes thought she had been chosen to destroy Kennedy. But what Eddowes didn't know was that Maria's father was actively anti-Communist. Although opposed to each other politically, the brothers remained friends, the President warning Maria's father that the Soviets were liable to arrest him, and advising him to leave ...

... Paese Sera (referred to henceforth as IPS) carried an article on the Garrison enquiry which focused on the alleged activities of Shaw. IPS claimed that Shaw was one of the directors of the Rome World Trade Centre (Centro Mondiale Commerciale - aka CMC); that CMC was used as a conduit by the CIA for subsidies to anti-Communist groups; that CMC had links with the Italian Fascists; that CMC was affiliated with Permindex (Permanent Industrial Exhibitions); that Permindex had been expelled from Switzerland because of (undisclosed) criminal activities; that Permindex had financed the efforts of the OAS in France; and that CMC closed because of the publicity it had attracted, and ...

... . One was Alan Weinstein's Perjury, a study of the Hiss case, which concluded that, after all, he had indeed been guilty. Perjury enabled Podhoretz, for example, to see that: "In exposing Alger Hiss as a Soviet agent, Congressman (sic) Richard Nixon made a major contribution to the bringing home of the Communist menace and therefore to the mobilisation of popular support for an interventionist foreign policy." (15) For a member of the Israeli lobby in 1976 when that was written 'an interventionist foreign policy' meant something quite specific. The other book, of course, was Legend, which did for Oswald what Perjury had done for Hiss. ...

... Western Goals, brainchild of right-wingers Larry McDonald (a leading John Bircher who died in KAL 007), and John Rees, editor of The Information Digest. Singlaub was dismissed by President Carter because he publicly opposed the withdrawal of some ground forces from South Korea. This may be explained by his membership of the World Anti-Communist League (WACL) which is heavily backed by the Korean Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. In 1980 Singlaub went to Central America with Reagan adviser and former director of the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) Gen. Daniel Graham (rtd) backing Guatemalan officials and the terror killings. In 1981 Singlaub was elected chairman of the new US ...

... Kraemer, Programme Director of the NSIC was at the May meeting. He is also a member of the CSI and a close family friend of General Rowney. NSIC is a lobbying organisation dedicated to the preservation of 'containment militarism'; its stated goal to 'train young American Labour leaders in the critical issues that divide the Free World from the Communist states'. It received $6 ,000,000 from Richard Scaife, an ultra-right millionaire who "has made the formation of public opinion both his business and his vocation". He also gave $250,000 to the CPD, $3 ,800,000 to the Heritage Foundation and $5 ,300 ...

... .50 Box A, 84b Whitehall High Street, London E1 7QX). Anarchy magazine has undergone a collective sea-change and there appears to be a move away from the endless recycling of anarchy's glorious past. The last two issues have been excellent, with hard original research on the Masons, the SAS, the World Anti-Communist League, etc. Available from the address above @ 50p plus postage. Author Jonathan Bloch has been refused permanent residence in Britain. A South African refugee, he has lived here since 1976. Home Secretary Leon Brittan stated that Mr Bloch has "acted in a way which might be construed as inimical to the interests of the host ...

... was highly vulnerable. We know he had a leftish streak in him and we doubted that this was entirely due to his wife's influence, as she was a kind of Bollinger Bolshevik, having the best of both worlds. We traced the original leftist influence to a pal of his at Cambridge when they were undergraduates. This chap was a communist sympathiser and remained in close touch with Mountbatten for many years. .. .He was not the only left winger engaged in work of national importance by Mountbatten. The late J.D . Bernal, who joined the CP in the 1920s and later wrote anonymous articles for the Communist Review under the pen name 'The Sage', ...

... and, in particular, to plot the downfall of Paul Warnke, Carter's arms negotiator. Soon the CPD coalition included the New Right, giving the militarists a mass populist basis. The ground was set for the 1980 election in which the Reagan campaign took over the old John Birch Society line and denounced the Trilateral Commission as a pro-Communist conspiracy. The rest is history (and may be the last we'll ever get.) But there's more to the story Sanders has to tell. He traces names and tactics of the contemporary CPD to an earlier Committee on the Present Danger that was active in the late forties and early fifties. This was a prestige body of establishment ...